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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">A </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">Deployment diagram</span><span class="f_BodyText"> shows how and where the system is to be deployed; that is, its execution architecture. Hardware devices, processors and software execution environments (system <a href="artifact.htm">Artifacts</a>) are reflected as <a href="node.htm">Nodes</a>, and the internal construction can be depicted by embedding or nesting Nodes. <a href="deployment.htm">Deployment</a> relationships indicate the deployment of Artifacts, and </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="manifest.htm">Manifest</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"> relationships reveal the physical implementation of components. As Artifacts are allocated to Nodes to model the system's deployment, the allocation is guided by the use of </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">deployment specifications</span><span class="f_BodyText">.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">A simple Deployment diagram is shown below, representing the arrangement of servers at a head office. The servers are represented by Nodes linked by either simple or aggregate Association relationships. </span></p>
<p class="p_TextIndentedL2"><img src="example%20of%20a%20deployment%20diagram.png" width="598" height="767" border="0" alt="Example of a Deployment Diagram"></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Deployment diagrams are ideal for using <a href="bitmapimagesindiagrams.htm">alternative images</a> for the objects that the elements represent</span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">.</span><span class="f_BodyText"> Such images can be substituted for the elements in the above diagram, as shown below:</span></p>
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<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Toolbox Elements and Connectors</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Select Deployment diagram elements and connectors from the</span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span class="f_BodyText"><a href="physicalgroup_2.htm">Deployment pages</a> of the Enterprise Architect UML</span><span class="f_UIControl"> Toolbox</span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">.</span></p>
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